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    ## Basic HTML Meta Tags

    ``` html
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    ## Basic HTML Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="keywords" content="your, tags"/>
    <meta name="description" content="150 words"/>
    <meta name="subject" content="your website's subject">
    <meta name="copyright"content="company name">
    <meta name="language" content="ES">
    <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />
    <meta name="revised" content="Sunday, July 18th, 2010, 5:15 pm" />
    <meta name="abstract" content="">
    <meta name="topic" content="">
    <meta name="summary" content="">
    <meta name="Classification" content="Business">
    <meta name="author" content="name, [email protected]">
    <meta name="designer" content="">
    <meta name="copyright" content="">
    <meta name="reply-to" content="[email protected]">
    <meta name="owner" content="">
    <meta name="url" content="http://www.websiteaddrress.com">
    <meta name="identifier-URL" content="http://www.websiteaddress.com">
    <meta name="directory" content="submission">
    <meta name="category" content="">
    <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide">
    <meta name="distribution" content="Global">
    <meta name="rating" content="General">
    <meta name="revisit-after" content="7 days">
    <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">
    <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
    <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
    ```

    ## OpenGraph Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
    <meta name="og:type" content="movie"/>
    <meta name="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
    <meta name="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
    <meta name="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
    <meta name="og:description" content="A group of U.S. Marines, under command of..."/>

    <meta name="fb:page_id" content="43929265776" />

    <meta name="og:email" content="[email protected]"/>
    <meta name="og:phone_number" content="650-123-4567"/>
    <meta name="og:fax_number" content="+1-415-123-4567"/>

    <meta name="og:latitude" content="37.416343"/>
    <meta name="og:longitude" content="-122.153013"/>
    <meta name="og:street-address" content="1601 S California Ave"/>
    <meta name="og:locality" content="Palo Alto"/>
    <meta name="og:region" content="CA"/>
    <meta name="og:postal-code" content="94304"/>
    <meta name="og:country-name" content="USA"/>

    <meta property="og:type" content="game.achievement"/>
    <meta property="og:points" content="POINTS_FOR_ACHIEVEMENT"/>

    <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/awesome.swf" />
    <meta property="og:video:height" content="640" />
    <meta property="og:video:width" content="385" />
    <meta property="og:video:type" content="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
    <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/html5.mp4" />
    <meta property="og:video:type" content="video/mp4" />
    <meta property="og:video" content="http://example.com/fallback.vid" />
    <meta property="og:video:type" content="text/html" />

    <meta property="og:audio" content="http://example.com/amazing.mp3" />
    <meta property="og:audio:title" content="Amazing Song" />
    <meta property="og:audio:artist" content="Amazing Band" />
    <meta property="og:audio:album" content="Amazing Album" />
    <meta property="og:audio:type" content="application/mp3" />
    ```

    ## Create Custom Meta Tags

    Use custom meta tags to store data that you need in javascript, instead of hard-coding that data into your javascript. I store my Google Analytics code in meta tags. Here's some examples:

    ``` html
    <meta name="google-analytics" content="1-AHFKALJ"/>
    <meta name="disqus" content="abcdefg"/>
    <meta name="uservoice" content="asdfasdf"/>
    <meta name="mixpanel" content="asdfasdf"/>
    ```

    ## Company/Service Meta Tags

    #### ClaimID

    ``` html
    <meta name="microid" content="mailto+http:sha1:e6058ed7fca4a1921cq91d7f1f3b8736cd3cc1g7" />
    ```

    #### Apple Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta content="yes" name="apple-touch-fullscreen" />
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">
    ```

    #### Internet Explorer Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="RevealTrans(Duration=2.0,Transition=2)" />
    <meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="RevealTrans(Duration=3.0,Transition=12)" />
    <meta name="mssmarttagspreventparsing" content="true">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1">
    <meta name="msapplication-starturl" content="http://blog.reybango.com/about/"/>
    <meta name="msapplication-window" content="width=800;height=600"/>
    <meta name="msapplication-navbutton-color" content="red"/>
    <meta name="application-name" content="Rey Bango Front-end Developer"/>
    <meta name="msapplication-tooltip" content="Launch Rey Bango's Blog"/>
    <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=About;action-uri=/about/;icon-uri=/images/about.ico" />
    <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=The Big List;action-uri=/the-big-list-of-javascript-css-and-html-development-tools-libraries-projects-and-books/;icon-uri=/images/list_links.ico" />
    <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=jQuery Posts;action-uri=/category/jquery/;icon-uri=/images/jquery.ico" />
    <meta name="msapplication-task" content="name=Start Developing;action-uri=/category/javascript/;icon-uri=/images/script.ico" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" />
    ```

    #### TweetMeme Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="tweetmeme-title" content="Retweet Button Explained" />
    ```

    #### Blog Catalog Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="blogcatalog" />
    ```

    #### Rails Meta Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"/>
    <meta name="csrf-token" content="/bZVwvomkAnwAI1Qd37lFeewvpOIiackk9121fFwWwc="/>
    ```

    #### Apple Tags

    ``` html
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">
    <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black">
    <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
    <meta name= "viewport" content = "width = 320, initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">
    <meta name= "viewport" content = "width = device-width">
    <meta name = "viewport" content = "initial-scale = 1.0">
    <meta name = "viewport" content = "initial-scale = 2.3, user-scalable = no">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="touch-icon-iphone.png" />
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="72x72" href="touch-icon-ipad.png" />
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="114x114" href="touch-icon-iphone4.png" />
    <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png">

    <link rel="apple-touch-icon" type="image/png" href="/apple-touch-icon.png" />
    ```

    ## HTML Link Tags

    ``` html
    <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/martini" />
    <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/ico" href="/favicon.ico" />
    <link rel="fluid-icon" type="image/png" href="/fluid-icon.png" />
    <link rel="me" type="text/html" href="http://google.com/profiles/thenextweb"/>
    <link rel='shortlink' href='http://blog.unto.net/?p=353' />
    <link rel='archives' title='May 2003' href='http://blog.unto.net/2003/05/' />
    <link rel='index' title='DeWitt Clinton' href='http://blog.unto.net/' />
    <link rel='start' title='Pattern Recognition 1' href='http://blog.unto.net/photos/pattern_recognition_1_about/' />
    <link rel='prev' title='OpenSearch and OpenID? A sure way to get my attention.' href='http://blog.unto.net/opensearch/opensearch-and-openid-a-sure-way-to-get-my-attention/' />
    <link rel='next' title='Not blog' href='http://blog.unto.net/meta/not-blog/' />
    <link rel="search" href="/search.xml" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" title="Viatropos" />

    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=3"/>
    <link rel="first" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php"/>
    <link rel="next" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=4"/>
    <link rel="previous" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=2"/>
    <link rel="last" href="http://www.syfyportal.com/atomFeed.php?page=147"/>

    <link rel='shortlink' href='http://smallbiztrends.com/?p=43625' />
    <link rel="canonical" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/06/9-things-to-do-before-entering-social-media.html" />
    <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
    <link rel="pingback" href="http://smallbiztrends.com/xmlrpc.php" />
    <link media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" href="http://wordpress.org/style/iphone.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
    ```

    ## Other Resources

    - [Dublic Core Meta Tags](http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/dublin/)
    - [Apple Meta Tags](http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/appleapplications/reference/safarihtmlref/articles/metatags.html)
    - [OpenGraph Meta Tags](http://opengraphprotocol.org/)
    - [Link Tag Meaning](http://intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/LinkTagMeaning)
    - [Google Chrome HTML5 Tags](http://www.html5rocks.com/)